To spur Economic Development of the newly emancipated African American population in the postcivil war era. Despite significant financial contributions from figures such as Frederick Douglass, greenback the friedmans bank failed leaving tens of thousands of depositors in financial ruin. Shortly, a Panel Discusses poverty in america 150 years after the creation of the freeman bank. But first a brief history by reference archivist damani davis. This is about two hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] post good evening and welcome to the National Archives. We wanted to give you a brief presentation on the free demands records freedmans banks records. Most people are not familiar with the record. Its here at the archives, we have the largest number of people we have coming our genealogical our Genealogical Researchers because due
Of the people that owned your families, if you are the descendent of an enslaved person. But from a genealogical perspective, it information on slaveholding families is the most important type of information you are going to get. Within the records of the slaveholding family, you will get records of your ancestors. I will not go too long into this. I know most of us are trying to get out before the snowstorm or ice storm. I know some of you have seen this photograph of the actual building as it existed. Today, 150 years ago, the bill the bank was officially signed into law by president lincoln. It was conceived initially by an abolitionist minister who was originally from new england. His name was john w alfred. During shermans march, he was a chaplain. He served the soldiers. As sherman marched through georgia, most of us are familiar with shermans special field order 15, which, after seeing the conditions of the recently free proclamation, since these population, he felt that since t
Due to some of the recent Television Programs such as africanamerican lives, who you think you are, and so forth, over the past 10 years, the interest in Genealogical Research has skyrocketed in north africanamericans. Just so you can have an idea of the top of the michigan file within some of these records and it you have potentially you can find information on these ancestors or ancestors that you didnt know about. Often they will give information on family members for genealogical purposes, especially as it pertains to africanamericans. Sometimes it will even give the names of their former slave owners. I know some of you may not be interested in knowing the names of persons who owned your family, but if youre a descendent of his layperson from a genealogical perspective, information on the slaveholding families is the most important type of information you are going to get. Its what is in the records of the slaveholding families at going to get the records of your answer is to. Im
Youre government is still not doing anything about it. So these wise finally start organizing all across the country before the enough, before they had cell phones. They would spend hours and days on the telephone talking with one another. Virginia beach, in san diego, in jacksonville, organizing and starting to put pressure on the politicians honor government, on the press to talk about this issue to bring their husbands home. They created an obsolete extraordinarily that we still recognize today, and i expect a bunch of you all wore pow mia bracelets at one point. There were over 5 million of these things printed or amended. And people from all sides of the political spectrum or them. Remember, vietnam was a tremendously divisive or. But because of these women and this pow mia movement, the country came together around the pow. And around the men that were fighting. For the first time our nation was in a position where we had to differentiate between the Political Goals of the war an
We are going to ask them a short question but then to our panel we will have to get grief responses. Would you ask your question please . Governor ehrlich the social democracies of europe by many metrics are providing better quality of life for their people. Not the freedom metric. Not the freedom dimension. We pride a market approach to the American People and that seemed to have succeeded in providing a better light to the American People on top of the pyramid. What freedom is a measure of quality of life and is at the perception that you think of european democracies . Is its fascinating to see this equally as income inequality becomes a great mantra. You go to class warfare every time because you go to the person making 40,000 a year but what is fascinating about this whole thing despite all the tremendous tax increases and the progressive new taxes and obamacare is stimulus and all that sort of stuff income inequality has increased during the obamacare is so i would submit to you